Author: Jim Escalle
Publisher: Traylor House Publishers
ISBN: 0988785137
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Unforgotten Hero tells the captivating life story of Second Lieutenant Jimmy L. Escalle, a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who became missing in action during the Korean War. Growing up in a small farming town in California’s San Joaquin Valley during the 1930s and 1940s, Jim was a devoted son, a caring older brother, a talented athlete, and a young man of moral character who always put others first. He started high school as the Second World War was at its peak, and graduated during a time of transition within America and around the world. He had always wanted to fly airplanes someday, and with the introduction of jet propulsion during his high school years, he dreamed of becoming a jet pilot. Called to serve his country after the Korean War began, his dream became a reality when he joined the Air Force and eventually got the opportunity to fly the F-86 Sabre, regarded as the most advanced jet fighter of its time. Soon after arriving in Korea he went on his first missions, which were MiG Alley sweeps. However, since Jim was assigned to a fighter-bomber squadron, the majority of his combat missions were air-to-ground. These were the most dangerous missions. In Korea, more pilots had been killed or listed as MIA due to being shot down by ground fire rather than enemy aircraft. For Jim, this fact was realized only five weeks before the armistice was signed. He paid the ultimate price for freedom when he disappeared while on a combat mission over North Korea and was never seen or heard from again.
Unforgotten Hero
Author: Jim Escalle
Publisher: Traylor House Publishers
ISBN: 0988785137
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Unforgotten Hero tells the captivating life story of Second Lieutenant Jimmy L. Escalle, a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who became missing in action during the Korean War. Growing up in a small farming town in California’s San Joaquin Valley during the 1930s and 1940s, Jim was a devoted son, a caring older brother, a talented athlete, and a young man of moral character who always put others first. He started high school as the Second World War was at its peak, and graduated during a time of transition within America and around the world. He had always wanted to fly airplanes someday, and with the introduction of jet propulsion during his high school years, he dreamed of becoming a jet pilot. Called to serve his country after the Korean War began, his dream became a reality when he joined the Air Force and eventually got the opportunity to fly the F-86 Sabre, regarded as the most advanced jet fighter of its time. Soon after arriving in Korea he went on his first missions, which were MiG Alley sweeps. However, since Jim was assigned to a fighter-bomber squadron, the majority of his combat missions were air-to-ground. These were the most dangerous missions. In Korea, more pilots had been killed or listed as MIA due to being shot down by ground fire rather than enemy aircraft. For Jim, this fact was realized only five weeks before the armistice was signed. He paid the ultimate price for freedom when he disappeared while on a combat mission over North Korea and was never seen or heard from again.
Publisher: Traylor House Publishers
ISBN: 0988785137
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Unforgotten Hero tells the captivating life story of Second Lieutenant Jimmy L. Escalle, a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who became missing in action during the Korean War. Growing up in a small farming town in California’s San Joaquin Valley during the 1930s and 1940s, Jim was a devoted son, a caring older brother, a talented athlete, and a young man of moral character who always put others first. He started high school as the Second World War was at its peak, and graduated during a time of transition within America and around the world. He had always wanted to fly airplanes someday, and with the introduction of jet propulsion during his high school years, he dreamed of becoming a jet pilot. Called to serve his country after the Korean War began, his dream became a reality when he joined the Air Force and eventually got the opportunity to fly the F-86 Sabre, regarded as the most advanced jet fighter of its time. Soon after arriving in Korea he went on his first missions, which were MiG Alley sweeps. However, since Jim was assigned to a fighter-bomber squadron, the majority of his combat missions were air-to-ground. These were the most dangerous missions. In Korea, more pilots had been killed or listed as MIA due to being shot down by ground fire rather than enemy aircraft. For Jim, this fact was realized only five weeks before the armistice was signed. He paid the ultimate price for freedom when he disappeared while on a combat mission over North Korea and was never seen or heard from again.
Searching for Stanley
Author: Kay Hughes
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450295614
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
World War II did not end in 1945 at least not for the Dwyer family of Hastings, Nebraska Nayeli Urquiza and Dardis McNamee, The Vienna Review For decades, Kay Hughes was unaware of her family s unresolved mystery. After her grandparents, Harold W. and Ellen Dwyer, received a telegram stating that their son 2nd Lt. Stanley Dwyer had become MIA over Austria on May 10, 1944, they began a relentless search. Left with only unanswered, nagging questions, they endured a lifelong private grief. Years later, one question would rekindle the search which, in turn, led Kay and her father, Harold E. Dwyer, Stanley s brother, on an intriguing journey across two continents and generations. In their quest to understand Stanley s fate, Kay and Harold developed friendships, visited with eyewitnesses, stood on hallowed ground, and observed the dedicated work of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. In her poignant narrative, Kay details how clues salvaged in the charred rubble of a fi re revealed the essence of Stanley almost forgotten World War II hero. Searching for Stanley is a timeless, real-life tale that illustrates one family s dedication to finding their beloved Stanley who, like thousands of other American patriots, made the ultimate sacrifice for his country. UNTIL THEY ARE HOME
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450295614
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
World War II did not end in 1945 at least not for the Dwyer family of Hastings, Nebraska Nayeli Urquiza and Dardis McNamee, The Vienna Review For decades, Kay Hughes was unaware of her family s unresolved mystery. After her grandparents, Harold W. and Ellen Dwyer, received a telegram stating that their son 2nd Lt. Stanley Dwyer had become MIA over Austria on May 10, 1944, they began a relentless search. Left with only unanswered, nagging questions, they endured a lifelong private grief. Years later, one question would rekindle the search which, in turn, led Kay and her father, Harold E. Dwyer, Stanley s brother, on an intriguing journey across two continents and generations. In their quest to understand Stanley s fate, Kay and Harold developed friendships, visited with eyewitnesses, stood on hallowed ground, and observed the dedicated work of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. In her poignant narrative, Kay details how clues salvaged in the charred rubble of a fi re revealed the essence of Stanley almost forgotten World War II hero. Searching for Stanley is a timeless, real-life tale that illustrates one family s dedication to finding their beloved Stanley who, like thousands of other American patriots, made the ultimate sacrifice for his country. UNTIL THEY ARE HOME
Black, Jewish, and Interracial
Author: Katya Gibel Azoulay
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822319719
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
DIVA study on being Black and Jewish in the United States. Author discusses bi-racialism and how and why African-Americans of Jewish descent identify themselves with other groups who have had a history of legal, political and racial discrimination, such as/div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822319719
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
DIVA study on being Black and Jewish in the United States. Author discusses bi-racialism and how and why African-Americans of Jewish descent identify themselves with other groups who have had a history of legal, political and racial discrimination, such as/div
The Historical Record of Wyoming Valley
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Local history
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Report of the Proceedings of the Wyoming Commemorative Association on the Occasion of the ... Anniversary of the Battle and Massacre of Wyoming
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Category : Wyoming Massacre, 1778
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Publisher:
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Category : Wyoming Massacre, 1778
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Report of the Proceedings of the Wyoming Commemorative Association on the Occasion of the ... Anniversary of the Battle and Massacre of Wyoming
Author: Wyoming Commemorative Association (Pa.).
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Category : Wyoming Massacre, 1778
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Category : Wyoming Massacre, 1778
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Forgotten
Author: Linda Hervieux
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445686615
Category : African American soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The tale of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognised to this day.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781445686615
Category : African American soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The tale of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognised to this day.
Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey
Author: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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Category : Canterbury, Eng. (Diocese)
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Category : Canterbury, Eng. (Diocese)
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey: ch. I-IV
Author: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Historical memorials of Westminster abbey. Suppl. to the first and second eds
Author: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Languages : en
Pages : 680
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